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Having passed the original test in 2012 I can attest to the fact it dealt with huge chunks of tax information to which my 40 year practice had no exposure. How I passed I will never fully understand. If it had dealt with more common everyday tax matters which folks like myself see every year it would to my thinking be pretty fair. The fall back position was "You have three or more shots at passing the test." I had to drive in excess of 150 miles to find a cramped testing facility in a non-descript hard to find tiny mall over in Richmond Virginia. I support their ability to remove PTINs from poor practitioners but not this scheme as originally created.

He has been a dependent since well before I took her on four years back. If not received I assume from what you said it can be added to her 2021 refund a point I overlooked. Another client who is single with income in excess of twice the income threshold got $1,400 deposited to his account. When asked if he planned on returning it a got only I hearty laugh. Two others claimed they did not receive one or other of the earlier rebates got a surprise when the IRS advised them they had in fact received them.

A client called to advise she did not receive the final rebate credit ($1,400) for her dependent grandson who becomes 18 on December 20th of this year 2021. Since he is under 19 years of age should she not have gotten it ? She received hers.

Yes there it is "does anyone know a stamp collector?" I'll save and print it. I am throwing out. Low and behold up pop four or five Christmas cards from 1913. They are really quite beautiful and besides the stamps on them the cards are early Americana. This will help ascertain a value. Many thanks. I see I posted in that one and ,of course, I still have those 400 post cards. You all will likely face this down the road and I do not envy you. Disposing of generational accumulations is not easy to say the least.

Sometime back a forum member posted an entry in which a question was raised concerning the appraisal value of items a client wished to sell. One or more members posted the names of appraisers or auction houses that they were familiar with (one in Washington D C if my memory serves) and I failed to print the replies out. Now I find I need this type of info and would appreciate any input from anyone. Alternatively if I can be furnished the original post and comments from here that to would be appreciated. I'll be sure and print it this time for sure if received.

That's really something. The mother bear is so accustomed to human exposure to fear no harm from humans to her cubs otherwise all those hefty critters to the right would have been heading for the hills.

I wonder how this will impact banks and others who have been using Turbo Tax as a marketing tool.

Well with support going to 2025 I surely have no concerns. I still use Windows 7 on an older computer and it received an update this week ! Go figure.

I have just received a notice from Microsoft concerning Windows 11. I have only recently adjusted to Windows 10 ! Does anyone have a handle on how much longer Microsoft will support Windows 10 ?

If he has filed the return and failed to report some income from 2020 his only recourse is an amended return. If he has unexpected income for this year 2021 he can simply send in a quarterly estimated payment by 9/15/21. Of course Abby is right (as always) if the received amount does not require the payment of any estimated tax.

"Poorly or incorrectly formatted " must be a new offense. I am not surprised by anything that comes out of our Department of Taxation. When have they not been sticky Gail? I had to contact my state Senator too get my $25 refund back on my return some years back. Last year they kept my $61.00 refund explaining I would receive a letter as to why I would not receive it. I'll likely be gone to glory before or if I ever hear from them. For the current year I went to my account to pay my quarterly tax estimate only to find the monthly calendar on the State website was a day off and it would not process my payment.

Needless to say I have never seen a hamburger on this site.

I have just read that federal employees with the addition of the new Juneteenth holiday get 44 paid days a year off. Are you really surprised that work is delayed and service sinks. Soon we will be right in there with the Ukraine and the like. And Possi I am delighted to hear some part of the Department of Taxation works well having not myself encountered it myself.

A client who filed in October last year called last week to advise he got his refund at last plus $275.00 in interest. The interest sorta soothed his pain.

Suffer in silence ? I always come in here to moan and groan. I feel better afterward but suspect I am being ignored.

Finally got a work around that did the trick.

I called WK this AM to renew only to find they are celebrating Memorial Day by being off on May 28th. Oh well I'll renew online. On attempting to access my account my password which I just changed recently did not work. Oh well I'll change it yet again. This allowed me to login on a ATX site but not the renewal site so I logged out. On returning to the ATX login site my NEW password did not work here !! Hopefully someone will report to work in Atlanta on 31st.

Heaven knows I am no authority. My nephew is an Anglican Catholic priest and somewhere along the line discussed ministerial licensing with me. At a recent marriage a Baptist minister mentioned something along the line of by the power invested in me by the State of Virginia (which I found unusual). It's likely a moot point as I doubt she will produce it. In any event I am advising the couple speak with an immigration attorney and if they choose not to then I will prepare a mfs return if they are happy with that. Frankly, I am getting away from returns with potential problems and only entertain this one because of my long relationship with her parents.

I too am considering a switch but I am staying put for 2022. I haven't made significant fee increases in ages so I plan to start moving them up in 2022 which will take care of any ATX increase.

Well he surely has unreported income supporting a wife who has not worked and a baby. I have located an immigration attorney with a listing in this county. I will see her dad on Monday next and give him the number and see how it goes. If no ITIN is to be obtained it's mfs showing his name as required and NRA in the Social Security field. I'll see if she will provide a photocopy of her marriage license on the chance it was performed by some shade tree preacher who is not licensed in Virginia. Every once in awhile one of these will pop up and if unlicensed the State will not recognize the marriage at least this was the practice formerly unless changed.

First I thank all of you for your responses. I have yet to speak with the wife. An immigration attorney is in Richmond at best. I expect to recommend that they apply for an ITIN and file a joint return but I don't know what the result will be. In filing this way do they get the EIC and child credit ? My feeling is he does not want to be shown on any tax document but we will see how this plays out.

Those are simply the facts. No W-2s, no 1099-NECs no nothing as well as he does not file taxes. His father in law basically filled me in on the relevant facts. If she considers reality racial well that is her prerogative although I intend on talking with her. I have a diverse group of clients and no issues relating to race have occurred in thirty nine years. I have pretty well decided to file her as mfs and let the Service deal with his lack of an ID. Her home was apparently an inheritance from a family member.

A longstanding client came in as usual at the last minute bringing his twenty something daughter's first tax return info. The daughter has her own home, a three year old baby, and a husband who is an Hispanic illegal with no tax ID of any kind who of course files no taxes likely working for cash. Instead of taking his family name she has retained her maiden including the family last name just as if she never married. In a word I have no clue as how to proceed. They live together so I can't file her as head of household. If filed as married filing separate how do I show the husband with no social security or TIN? In this neck of the woods this is an unheard of occurrence. In a word I simply have no idea of how to proceed. I may ask to see the marriage certificate it may provide an out. Any suggestions ?

I located the toggle. How it got checked is a total mystery.

I recently had to prepare a client return again in order to efile it. The original efile was rejected as the Service showed the wife as deceased. Our state Senator got that cleared but I had to recreate the return in order to refile. After submission I got a reject stating I did not have a subscription to Versicom. Well no I don't and have no clue what that is. They provided a number to call or said I could simply remove it from the efile. I have no clue how to remove it nor even know what they are talking about as I did not select it to begin with. Does anyone have a simple fix to this one ?